"private" in seven languages

Meaningprivate

Spanish

privado

/priˈbado/

learned

French

privé

/pʁive/

learned

Old French privé also gave English privy.

Italian

privato

/priˈvato/

learned

Portuguese

privado

/pɾiˈvadu/

learned

For a beach or a school, Brazilians often say particular.

Romanian

privat

/priˈvat/

learned

Catalan

privat

/pɾiˈbat/

learned

English

private

/ˈpɹaɪvət/

from Latin/French · Latin prīvātus

English → ItalianprivateprivatoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

PRĪVĀTUM‘set apart, not public (from PRĪVĀRE 'to deprive')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

PRĪVĀTUS meant 'set apart' from public life. English has it twice: private straight from Latin, privy through Old French privé.

English relatives: privacy, privilege, deprive, privy